nebraskatag

Nebraska TAG

October 29, 2009

Getting started

• EtherPad group notes (now PDF)
  • Chris Pultz's notes in a Google Doc
• What do we want to get out of today?
• Survey: Challenges we face

Why aren't you having a bigger impact? (pptx ppt)

• Survey results: Challenges we face
• Agreement and trust
• Resistance to change

Breakout activity

• I Gotta Feeling
• Shots 'R' Us
• Guitar
• Fred 1
• Star Wars Uncut
• Huffington Post 1
• Fred 2
• Fred 3
• Channels
• Huffington Post 2
• TechCrunch

Deconstruction of Wikipedia

• WIkipedia.org
• English home page
• Asphalt
• Sarah Palin
• Controversial topics
• Recent changes

Shock and awe (if you do this, let me know how it went!)

• Signs for ends of continuum
• List of technologies
• List of questions

Blogs

• Google Reader
• Subject-specific blogs
• Other education blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators

How have the Internet and other digital technologies...? (pptx ppt)

Administrative, legal, and community concerns

• PowerPoint (pptx ppt )
• Iowa Workforce Development Current Employment Report
• CIPA facts
• What message does your AUP send home?
• School AUP 2.0 overview
• Blocking the future (McLeod article)
• Other resources
  • Format bigotry
  • No Facebook for you!
  • Educators struggle with AUP enforcement
  • I don't like my district's AUP
  • Fear
  • The one percent doctrine
  • Educating trumps blocking
  • From the head of Zeus
  • I'd like an idiocy filter, please
  • Principal blogging not allowed
  • I don't like Internet filters
  • Online predators: Overblown threat?
  • The facts about online sex abuse and schools
  • Predators v. cyberbullies: Reality check
  • Report: Enhancing child safety and online technologies
  • Chart week - Internet safety
  • Online safety for students resources (K-6)

Help them!

• Professional development for the leaders
• Iowa transitioning workshops
• Iowa boot camps
• YouTube QuickCapture (e.g., Roger Wilcox)
• Leadership Day 2007
• Leadership Day 2008

Evaluations

• Nebraska TAG evaluation results

Watch this sometime!

• Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations (Internet short Internet long pptx ppt pdf)

Other stuff

• Please vote for Scott's ISTE keynote topic
• Vitamin D levels
• Recommended reading
• Recommended viewing
• Model 21st century schools - USA
• Model 21st century schools - International
• Online stopwatch